Ocean

[A]ll of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came.

- John F. Kennedy

Speech before the America’s Cup Races, Sept. 1962

The Wanderer Returned

Inside myself I should find the absent ones,

that smell from the lumberyard;

perhaps the wheat that rippled on the slopes

still goes on growing, but only within me,

and it’s in myself that I must travel to find that woman

the rain bore off, and there is no other way.

Nothing can last in any other way.

- Pablo Neruda

“The Wanderer Returned”

Ordinary miracle

It's not that unusual when everything is beautiful
It's just another ordinary miracle today

– Sarah McLachlan

You pierce my soul

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”

— Jane Austen

Persuasion

Photo: clarita

One

One life but we’re not the same

We get to carry each other

Carry each other

One

- U2

Photo: NASA

Give me the splendid silent sun

GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling

-         Walt Whitman

Transient Life in Words

Life doesn’t hold still…I learned every feeling waits upon its gesture, and I had to be prepared to recognize that moment when I saw it.

[I] felt the need to hold transient life in words – there’s so much more of life that only words can convey – strongly enough to last me as long as I lived.

– Eudora Welty

Dare

Do I dare

Do I dare

Do I dare disturb the universe? 

- T.S. Eliot

Beginning

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.

That will be the beginning.

-         Louis L’Amour

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

                                                             - e e cummings

Lamps to be lit

Children are not vessels to be filled, they are lamps to be lit.

– Swami Chinmayananda